Detailed plans for a primary school and the next sub-phase of a major redevelopment in South Wokingham have been approved.

David Wilson Homes submitted reserved matters plans to build 66 homes and a play area, and additional detail about a new primary school at the Montague Park development.

The 66-homes includes 17 (26 per cent) affordable housing. The overall percentage of affordable housing that forms part of the first 650 homes in the 2,500-home development is 23 - lower than the standard 35 per cent.

Planning officer Emy Circuit told the committee the developer had agreed to provide eight per cent of affordable housing elsewhere in the borough, and the remaining percentage was in lieu as David Wilson Homes agreed to prepare the primary school now for a three-form entry.

The primary is expected to open in September 2015, earlier than the agreed opening of when 200 home are occupied, which was expected to be in 2016.

The school will open as a two-form entry but additional space will be built in preparation for it to expand to three-form entry.

Concerns were raised by Wokingham Town Council and members of the borough's planning committee at last night's meeting about parking provision.

The plans include a staff car park and a temporary drop-off area for parents to use at the planned neighbourhood centre.